How about a voluntary code for QSLing, encouraging people to only send QSLs
for "significant" contacts?
Some contest stations (and others) practice "saturation bombing" - QSLing
everyone they work. 95% of the stations probably don't want the card, most
feel obliged to reply, and most received cards eventually go in the bin.
I have well over a dozen identical cards from one station, for contacts on
the same band in different contests. I replied to the first two, then gave
up. This is not the kind of thing that endears people to QSLing 100%.
We all have special QSLs that we treasure - firsts on different
bands/modes, rare expeditions, the odd famous call. If we could ration
ourselves to only send QSLs for these contacts, then QSLing would regain
some meaning and reply rates would surely improve.
73
Al, GM4BAP
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